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Or­ga­ni­za­tional Cul­ture & Design

TagLast edit: Feb 1, 2025, 12:14 AM by Raemon

Organizational Culture & Design, or Institution Design, is the study/​practice of designing groups of humans that can achieve goals, scale, and continue working at a goal over time.

It overlaps with Mechanism Design, which focuses on economic and game-theoretic incentive design.

Re­cur­sive Mid­dle Man­ager Hell

RaemonJan 1, 2023, 4:33 AM
224 points
46 comments11 min readLW link1 review

Dan Luu on “You can only com­mu­ni­cate one top pri­or­ity”

RaemonMar 18, 2023, 6:55 PM
148 points
18 comments3 min readLW link
(twitter.com)

Com­pany lead­er­ship and tac­ti­cal decisions

DentinOct 1, 2022, 9:21 PM
21 points
6 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Strong, Stable, Open: Choose Two—in search of an article

Eli_Jan 31, 2025, 2:48 PM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Let Us Do Our Work As Well

jsteinhardtSep 17, 2021, 12:40 AM
7 points
2 comments2 min readLW link
(bounded-regret.ghost.io)

the sub­red­dit size threshold

bhauthJan 23, 2024, 12:38 AM
32 points
3 comments4 min readLW link
(www.bhauth.com)

the Giga Press was a mistake

bhauthAug 21, 2024, 4:51 AM
98 points
26 comments5 min readLW link
(bhauth.com)

Ven­ture Gran­ters, The VCs of pub­lic goods, in­cen­tiviz­ing good dreams

mako yassDec 17, 2021, 8:57 AM
12 points
9 comments12 min readLW link

Ap­peal to Con­se­quence, Value Ten­sions, And Ro­bust Organizations

Matt GoldenbergJul 19, 2019, 10:09 PM
45 points
90 comments5 min readLW link

[Linkpost] Cri­tiques of Red­wood Research

Orpheus16Mar 31, 2023, 8:00 PM
13 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Ex­po­sure to Lizard­man is Lethal

Duncan Sabien (Deactivated)Apr 2, 2023, 6:57 PM
91 points
96 comments3 min readLW link

Six Di­men­sions of Oper­a­tional Ad­e­quacy in AGI Projects

Eliezer YudkowskyMay 30, 2022, 5:00 PM
310 points
66 comments13 min readLW link1 review

So­cial­ism in large organizations

Adam ZernerJul 30, 2023, 7:25 AM
7 points
16 comments2 min readLW link

Re­quest to AGI or­ga­ni­za­tions: Share your views on paus­ing AI progress

Apr 11, 2023, 5:30 PM
141 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

Hiring Pro­gram­mers in Academia

jefftkJul 24, 2022, 8:20 PM
36 points
19 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

In­sti­tu­tional Senescence

Martin SustrikJun 26, 2020, 4:40 AM
27 points
7 comments2 min readLW link
(250bpm.com)

High Reli­a­bil­ity Orgs, and AI Companies

RaemonAug 4, 2022, 5:45 AM
86 points
7 comments12 min readLW link1 review

Deep­Mind and Google Brain are merg­ing [Linkpost]

Orpheus16Apr 20, 2023, 6:47 PM
55 points
5 comments1 min readLW link
(www.deepmind.com)

[Question] Toy al­ign­ment prob­lem: So­cial Ne­work KPI design

qbolecOct 8, 2022, 10:14 PM
7 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

[Question] Where do (did?) sta­ble, co­op­er­a­tive in­sti­tu­tions come from?

AnnaSalamonNov 3, 2020, 10:14 PM
151 points
72 comments4 min readLW link

EA orgs’ le­gal struc­ture in­hibits risk tak­ing and in­for­ma­tion shar­ing on the margin

ElizabethNov 5, 2023, 7:13 PM
136 points
17 comments4 min readLW link

Thoughts on AGI or­ga­ni­za­tions and ca­pa­bil­ities work

Dec 7, 2022, 7:46 PM
102 points
17 comments5 min readLW link

Pal­world de­vel­op­ment blog post

bhauthJan 28, 2024, 5:56 AM
81 points
12 comments1 min readLW link
(note.com)

[Question] When build­ing an or­ga­ni­za­tion, there are lots of ways to pre­vent fi­nan­cial cor­rup­tion of per­son­nel. But what are the ways to pre­vent cor­rup­tion via so­cial sta­tus, poli­ti­cal power, etc.?

M. Y. ZuoOct 17, 2023, 6:51 PM
19 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

My thoughts on OpenAI’s al­ign­ment plan

Orpheus16Dec 30, 2022, 7:33 PM
55 points
3 comments20 min readLW link

Or­gani­sa­tion-Level Lock-In Risk Interventions

alamertonApr 1, 2025, 12:42 PM
5 points
0 comments8 min readLW link

Went­worth and Larsen on buy­ing time

Jan 9, 2023, 9:31 PM
74 points
6 comments12 min readLW link

Pod­cast with Oli Habryka on LessWrong /​ Light­cone Infrastructure

DanielFilanFeb 5, 2023, 2:52 AM
88 points
20 comments1 min readLW link
(thefilancabinet.com)

Con­sent Isn’t Always Enough

jefftkFeb 24, 2023, 3:40 PM
57 points
16 comments3 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

“Care­fully Boot­strapped Align­ment” is or­ga­ni­za­tion­ally hard

RaemonMar 17, 2023, 6:00 PM
262 points
23 comments11 min readLW link1 review

The Wizard of Oz Prob­lem: How in­cen­tives and nar­ra­tives can skew our per­cep­tion of AI developments

Orpheus16Mar 20, 2023, 8:44 PM
16 points
3 comments6 min readLW link

Why Large Bureau­cratic Or­ga­ni­za­tions?

johnswentworthAug 27, 2024, 6:30 PM
68 points
52 comments12 min readLW link

Notes on So­cial Responsibility

David GrossMar 19, 2022, 2:44 PM
17 points
4 comments19 min readLW link

Academia as Com­pany Hierarchy

Virgil KurkjianMay 9, 2021, 5:29 PM
72 points
40 comments18 min readLW link

The­ory of Change for AI Safety Camp

Linda LinseforsJan 22, 2025, 10:07 PM
36 points
3 comments7 min readLW link

How my team at Light­cone some­times gets stuff done

Bird ConceptSep 19, 2022, 5:47 AM
192 points
43 comments7 min readLW link1 review

Why Aren’t There More Schel­ling Holi­days?

johnswentworthOct 31, 2022, 7:31 PM
63 points
21 comments1 min readLW link

In­sti­tu­tions Can­not Res­train Dark-Triad AI Exploitation

Dec 27, 2022, 10:34 AM
5 points
0 comments5 min readLW link
(mflb.com)

The value of low-con­scien­tious­ness peo­ple on teams

CraigMichaelJun 14, 2021, 2:06 AM
60 points
13 comments6 min readLW link

2024 Free­dom Com­mu­ni­ties Events

Tudor IliescuJul 12, 2024, 8:04 AM
−6 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

De­sign­ing Ar­tifi­cial Wis­dom: The Wise Work­flow Re­search Organization

Jordan ArelJul 12, 2024, 7:18 PM
2 points
0 comments8 min readLW link

be the per­son that makes the meet­ing productive

OldmanrahulJan 18, 2025, 10:32 PM
9 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Ex­plor­ing the Pre­cau­tion­ary Prin­ci­ple in AI Devel­op­ment: His­tor­i­cal Analo­gies and Les­sons Learned

Christopher KingMar 21, 2023, 3:53 AM
−1 points
2 comments9 min readLW link

How Microsoft’s ruth­less em­ployee eval­u­a­tion sys­tem an­nihilated team col­lab­o­ra­tion.

positivesumNov 25, 2023, 1:25 PM
3 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(tryingtruly.substack.com)

Hufflepuff Lead­er­ship and Fight­ing Entropy

RaemonJun 7, 2018, 12:28 AM
51 points
2 comments4 min readLW link

When pro­grams have to work—les­sons from NASA

NancyLebovitzJul 31, 2011, 3:22 PM
37 points
50 comments3 min readLW link

The why and how of daily updates

VipulNaikMay 5, 2019, 3:21 PM
33 points
3 comments4 min readLW link

Why don’t we treat ge­niuses like pro­fes­sional ath­letes?

ryan_bOct 11, 2018, 3:37 PM
24 points
14 comments2 min readLW link

Pro­ject Hufflepuff

RaemonJan 18, 2017, 6:57 PM
51 points
35 comments1 min readLW link

Theater Tick­ets, Sleep­ing Pills, and the Idiosyn­crasies of Del­e­gated Risk Management

DavidmanheimOct 30, 2019, 10:33 AM
27 points
7 comments3 min readLW link

The Sim­ple Solow Model of Soft­ware Engineering

johnswentworthApr 8, 2019, 11:06 PM
25 points
15 comments3 min readLW link

Fund­ing can­ni­bal­ism mo­ti­vates con­cern for overheads

ThrasymachusAug 30, 2014, 12:42 AM
40 points
4 comments3 min readLW link

In­tro­duc­ing The Long Game Pro­ject: Im­prov­ing De­ci­sion-Mak­ing Through Table­top Ex­er­cises and Si­mu­lated Experience

Dan StuartJun 13, 2023, 9:45 PM
4 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

The Towel Cen­sus: A Method­ol­ogy for Iden­ti­fy­ing Or­phaned Ob­jects in Your Home

mingyuanDec 22, 2019, 6:04 AM
29 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Has gov­ern­ment or in­dus­try had greater past suc­cess in main­tain­ing re­ally pow­er­ful tech­nolog­i­cal se­crets?

habrykaMay 1, 2019, 2:24 AM
27 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

Plant Seeds of Rationality

lukeprogMar 10, 2011, 5:51 PM
45 points
77 comments1 min readLW link

An On­tol­ogy of Sys­temic Failures: Dragons, Bul­lshit Moun­tain, and the Cloud of Doom

ialdabaothSep 8, 2018, 6:19 PM
29 points
28 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] How much do ma­jor foun­da­tions grant per hour of staff time?

RaemonMay 5, 2019, 7:57 PM
22 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Are there non-AI pro­jects fo­cused on defeat­ing Moloch globally?

eapacheSep 14, 2020, 2:13 AM
13 points
19 comments1 min readLW link

Si­mu­late the CEO

robotelvisAug 12, 2023, 12:09 AM
23 points
5 comments5 min readLW link
(messyprogress.substack.com)

Mili­tary Ra­tion­al­ities and Irrationalities

pscheyerSep 9, 2013, 11:48 PM
35 points
58 comments1 min readLW link

How Fo­rumMag­num builds com­mu­ni­ties of inquiry

Jim FisherSep 4, 2023, 4:52 PM
33 points
21 comments5 min readLW link

a rant on poli­ti­cian-en­g­ineer coal­i­tional conflict

bhauthSep 4, 2023, 5:15 PM
64 points
12 comments4 min readLW link

Pro­cess Orientation

lincolnquirkMar 21, 2021, 3:21 PM
31 points
4 comments5 min readLW link

Ex­plicit and Im­plicit Communication

lionhearted (Sebastian Marshall)Mar 21, 2018, 8:58 AM
60 points
23 comments13 min readLW link2 reviews

Who de­cides what should be worked on?

Aglaya IvanovnaAug 1, 2021, 5:26 PM
39 points
8 comments4 min readLW link

Long Re­view: Eco­nomic Hierarchies

SebastianG Apr 23, 2022, 12:43 PM
13 points
4 comments31 min readLW link

Where Utopias Go Wrong, or: The Four Lit­tle Planets

ExCephMay 27, 2022, 1:24 AM
15 points
0 comments11 min readLW link
(ginnungagapfoundation.wordpress.com)

Non­profit Boards are Weird

HoldenKarnofskyJun 23, 2022, 2:40 PM
156 points
26 comments20 min readLW link1 review
(www.cold-takes.com)

[Question] How do you con­cisely com­mu­ni­cate & nav­i­gate the poli­tics /​ cul­ture at your job work­ing at a large cor­po­ra­tion or in­sti­tu­tion?

WillaJul 12, 2022, 3:22 AM
10 points
6 comments1 min readLW link
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